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WIP: Add support for building images for Pine A64+
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mohan Adapa [email protected]
The current state is that images are built successfully. Boot happens for SPL, ATF and u-boot. u-boot is able load the boot script, then kernel, dtb and initrd. However:
- Kernel does not show any messages or show any further progress (such as running systemd or initrd). I assumed that the upstream/Debian kernel does not have enough board support bits to actually boot the board. More work is scheduled to be mered into next kernel releases. See https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort .
- The dtb path in /boot is placed by flash-kernel in the wrong path due to a bug in flash-kernel: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=860304. This affects many arm64 boards and can be easily worked around.
Many basic features such DRAM and Ethernet for Allwinner A64 are available only in Linux 4.15. We should at least wait until Linux 4.15 is available in Debian.